Coalition violates armistice in Yemen 7,633 times during 71 days

PROVINCES, Jun. 12 (YPA) – The US-backed Saudi-led coalition forces continued to violate the UN-brokered humanitarian and military truce in Yemen for the 71st consecutive day, with 7,633 violations.

A military source in Sanaa confirmed that during the past 24 hours, the coalition forces committed 160 violations, 72 of which by sorties of armed reconnaissance and spy planes over the provinces of Marib, Taiz, Hajjah, Jawf, Saada, and Bayda, and the border fronts.

The coalition forces created fortifications around the city of Marib, while an air strike by armed reconnaissance aircraft hit the homes of citizens and the sites of the army and the popular committees in Tina area of Hajjah, according the source.

He confirmed that 67 violations by shooting intensively at the homes of citizens and the positions of the army and the popular committees were recorded in the provinces of Marib, Taiz, Hajjah, Saada and Dhalea, and the border fronts.

The violations also included 19 breaches with artillery shelling on the sites of the army and the popular committees in Al-Balaq Al-Sharqi and Mala’a areas in Marib, other sites in Haradh, Al-Mazraq and Bani Hassan in Hajjah, in Al-Malahidh and Al-Madafin areas in Saada, and in Tabat Kamel and Al-Amud in Wadi Jarah in Jizan region.

It is worth noting that the coalition forces committed 6,322 violations during the past two months of the UN armistice time before the extension.

YPA